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Performances

online sources

Details of the recordings: [1]
Details of composition etc [2]
Details of composition, recordings, performances at Schott Music [3]
oh to have item 66 on this list: "Typescript of talk by Michael Tippett at the Arnolfini, Bristol, on The Midsummer Marriage, n.d., with Tippett taking questions" [4]

Concert performances

Proms 2013 [5]
Proms 1977 (same source)
Boston concert perf 2012 [6]

Productions

The Royal Opera House has mounted three productions of The Midsummer Marriage, in 1955, 1968 and 1996.^[1] The 1996 production was revived in 2005, to mark the centenary of the Tippett's birth.^[2]^[3]

In 1976 Welsh National Opera staged a production^[4]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). with a cast that included Felicity Lott as Jennifer^[5] and Helen Watts, who had played the role in London in 1968, and recorded it in 1970, as Sosostris.^[6] Other British productions have been put on by Opera North in 1985^[7] and Scottish Opera in 1988.^[8]

Abroad the opera has received at least four productions. The German premiere was on 29 September 1973, at the ^[9] with Lieselotte Rebmann as Jennifer ^[10]. Other productions have been at Stockholm in 1982,^[11] San Fransisco in 1983, New York in 1988,1993 ^[12] and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2005.^[13]

Concert performances have been given at the 1977 London Proms,^[14] and in Boston in 2012.^[15]

Paper sources

Books

Sadie, S. and Macy, L. (eds.) (2006). "Midsummer Marriage, The", pp. 410-413. The Grove Book of Operas. Oxford University Press. (This Google link gives full access to pages 410 and 412 only), but still has quire a lot of material) Voceditenore (talk) 12:03, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lebrecht, Norman (2001). Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture Wars, 1945-2000, pp.170-171. University Press of New England (behind-the-scenes background to the premiere). Voceditenore (talk) 12:03, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Google book result

Programmes

"I have a programme of a Welsh National Opera production (Ian Watt-Smith/Richard Armstrong) which I saw in Leeds in 1976 and another (somewhere) of a 1985 Opera North production, also in Leeds (Tim Albery/David Lloyd-Jones)" quoth GT on the InfoBoxProject talkpage

Little note on the references

The references for the performance history are, at the moment, bare, because I'm searching for better ones - I don't want to put in the effort just to have to redo straight after. almost-instinct 18:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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[9] Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

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 *"I have a programme of a Welsh National Opera production (Ian Watt-Smith/Richard Armstrong) which I saw in Leeds in 1976 and another (somewhere) of a 1985 Opera North production, also in Leeds (Tim Albery/David Lloyd-Jones)" quoth GT on the InfoBoxProject talkpage
+== Little note on the references ==
+The references for the performance history are, at the moment, bare, because I'm searching for better ones - I don't want to put in the effort just to have to redo straight after. [[User:Almost-instinct|''<font color="#FF2400">almost</font>'']]-[[User talk:Almost-instinct|<font color="#007FFF">instinct</font>]] 18:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)